a. [ Gr. 'amfi`dromos running about or around. ] Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Gr. &unr_; slanting, oblique + &unr_; a running, course; cf. F. loxodromique. ] Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables. [ 1913 Webster ]
Loxodromic curveor Loxodromic line (Geom.), a line on the surface of a sphere, which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; the rhumb line. It is the line on which a ship sails when her course is always in the direction of one and the same point of the compass. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The art of sailing in a direct course, or on the arc of a great circle, which is the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of the globe; great-circle sailing; orthodromy. [ 1913 Webster ]
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